God’s Favorite Place on Earth
By Maurice Chammah In Glen Rose, Texas, the director of a small Creation Evidence Museum expounds on his theories linking creationism, Israel, and laxatives. Continue Reading →
a review of religion and media
By Maurice Chammah In Glen Rose, Texas, the director of a small Creation Evidence Museum expounds on his theories linking creationism, Israel, and laxatives. Continue Reading →
A round-up of religion in the recent news. Continue Reading →
By Nathan Schradle
The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Continue Reading →
By Nathan Schradle
The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Continue Reading →
This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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A handful of representatives of the “White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” and the World Church of the Creator rallied in Austin this past weekend in support of Proposition Continue Reading →
Cidney Dutton: On Nov. 8, Texans will be voting on Proposition 2, a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Two editorials in a local paper, the Waco Tribune, give distinct Continue Reading →
What did James Dobson know about Harriet Miers, and when did he know it? John Fund of the Wall Street Journal answers those questions with notes obtained from an Oct. Continue Reading →
By Karen Brooks Reprinted with permission of The Dallas Morning News ELDORADO, Texas – The narrow dirt road cuts away from a padlocked metal gate with a “No Trespassing” sign and Continue Reading →